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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Parish of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The … in wall and carved with a Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John under a trefoiled and gabled head, 14th-century. … extended in the 18th century. The Moat, S.E. of the house, formerly enclosed a roughly rectangular island, but is now …
A History of the County of Somerset
… prehistoric and Roman activity in the parish but what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part … on the village green. 96 Between 1871 and 1899 a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's … MANORS The 10 hides at Gyrdlingatone given to Glastonbury abbey in the mid 10th century have been interpreted as at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the … endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings except … in the diocese and not found again in Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 … 20 The inclosure commissioners of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 … a yard of meadow (¼ of a lot), but it was said that it had formerly been double; 1 horse was reckoned equivalent to 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that the … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school operated sporadically in the later 19th century. 62 A new school with accommodation for 53 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Book, 79 or only a single settlement south and west of the later village. The name Yarnton, formerly Erdington, is said to mean a dwelling place or … 86 An accusation of the late 15th century that Rewley abbey had partly depopulated the parish by inclosing 87 is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the manorial court was in … matters. 19 The two churchwardens were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… collections were received from Yarnton in 1829, but no later mention has been found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel … 16 people, 47 and the number of dissenters reported in the later 19th century varied from 14 to 30. 48 Bodl. G.A. Oxon. …